What will happen next?

That will depend on the human spirit of our children and ourselves.

The past gives us a certain amount of comfort and the future gives us a certain amount of anxiety. Comfort can give you a few moments of bliss to rebuild your energy. Anxiety, if managed, can give you the motivation to take action.

And even if your action does not solve all of the problems of the world maybe our collective actions can have a positive impact.

So savor both the comfort of the past and anxiety of the future. Work to try and have a complete understanding of your feelings so you may transcend the emotions and gain some intellectual understandings.

We may need to help our children with their own understandings but if we have made the jump then teaching them how to do it will be much easier. I fully believe we need to help our children understand the world around them. Trying to keep them “in a box” hoping they won’t feel what we are feeling is a false hope. Helping them with tools that work at their own level of understanding can give them hope and tools for their own future with or without a parent present.

When you better understand your own feelings, your ability to act can be done with greater precision. Greater precision will then raise the odds of success which will give you a past with some additional comfort to savor and new energy for the future.

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Thanks for the poems … it gives me some energy for the future.